BACKGROUND Interictal behavioral symptoms in frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) are variable and often difficult to discriminate from other localization-related epilepsies. METHODS AND RESULTS We report two female patients with right FLE who exhibited fantastic confabulations. One of the patients had a 14-year history of hypermotor seizures, and the other had a 10-year history of dyscognitive seizur...

According to different studies (1,2), the flash-lag effect (FLE) may account for the errors that ASR make, not only in real life situations, but also in computer animations (3). The FLE is defined as a moving object that is perceived as spatially leading its real position at an instant defined by a time marker (in the particular case of judging offside the moment the ball is passed). The first ...

File formats have a tendency to proliferate and the tools required to convert between formats tend to lag behind. In addition, fle conversion is often inadequate and information lossy. The Unifed File Container (UFC) is a framework for allowing existing fle formats to share content, structure, and presentation without necessarily using the same underlying fle format. Any proposed framework clea...

In the flash-lag effect (FLE) a moving object is perceived ahead of a stationary stimulus flashed in spatial alignment. Several explanations have been proposed to account for the FLE and its dependence on a variety of psychophysical attributes. Here, we show that a simple feed-forward network reproduces the standard FLE and several related manifestations, such as its modulation by stimulus lumi...

The flash-lag effect (FLE) is the perceptual phenomenon in which a flash adjacent to a continuously moving object is perceived behind it. Horizontal propagation of activity could explain a shorter latency for moving than for flashed objects but, to our knowledge, no psychophysical data supporting this has been given. We show that two concurrent moving stimuli increase the FLE, presumably due to...

Listening to a degraded speech signal over time can interfere with language development and learning in children with both language and reading disorders. Some may benefit from modifications that improve access to speech in the classroom. The Functional Listening Evaluation (FLE; Johnson & Von Almen, 1997), developed for assessing classroom listening ability in children with hearing impairment,...

PURPOSE: Cognitive impairment is frequent in children with frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE), but its etiology is unknown. With functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we have explored the relationship between brain activation, functional connectivity, and cognitive functioning in a cohort of pediatric patients with FLE and healthy controls. METHODS: Thirty-two children aged 8–13 years with FLE...

The purpose of this pilot study was to compare the performance of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) on cognitively-based daily living tasks. The hypothesis was that patients with TLE would demonstrate relatively more impairment on a test of everyday memory, while patients with FLE would demonstrate relatively more impairment on a test of everyday executi...

PURPOSE The purpose of our study is to describe intellectual functioning in three common childhood epilepsy syndromes - frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE), childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) and benign epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes (BECTS). And also to determine the influence of epilepsy related variables, type of epilepsy, age at epilepsy onset, duration and frequency of epilepsy, and treatment ...

Ticks (order Ixodida) vector pathogenic bacteria that cause diseases in humans and other mammals. They also contain bacteria that are closely related to pathogens but function as endosymbionts that provide nutrients that are missing from mammalian blood-their sole food source. For instance, mammalian pathogens such as Coxiella burnetii and Francisella tularensis, as well as Coxiella-like and Fr...